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Religion Quotes by Daniel Dennett
- There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
- True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in…
- The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters…
- I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
- There are no good reasons to believe in god.
- Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
- I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply…
- Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
- You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the…
- You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!
- I don't think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the…
- I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there…
- It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude.…
- Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.
- Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
- The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of…
- The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight - that God…
- We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.
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